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I have installed Ubuntu 11.04 and tried to install Ruby as apt-get install ruby. The default version in repositories was 1.8.7, okay, install 1.9.2 manually. Then I’m going for rubygems, download tar file, install rubygems, try to install something with them, zlib-mistake appeared. Found the solution with rvm, didn’t help. Now I’m stuck with broken gem command and useless rvm installed.
The question is – which Linux distribution is the most friendly for a Ruby beginner?
The distribution shouldn’t matter at all, if you’re using RVM (strongly suggested). Otherwise, if you want to have the latest up-to-date packages (including ruby) you could turn to rolling release distros (such as Archlinux or Gentoo). You can always add other repositories to any distro, and get more updated packages this way, as others suggested for Ubuntu.
Update: It’s been years since my original reply. Nowadays, with Docker, Podman and toolbx, the distro itself is even less relevant. With containers, one can set up an isolated Ruby environment and ensure developer-production parity.